School of Integrative Biology University of Illinois at ...

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History. Research and teaching in the plant sciences began at Illinois with the University's founding in 1867. A quarter century later, a Department of Botany was formally established and our first Ph.D. was minted in 1909. Fifty years on, we uprooted our headquarters from its ancestral home in the Natural History Building and transplanted it ...